Comments on: Windows Fix: “Insufficient system resources exist to complete the API”

By: Patrice

Patrice — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:00:29 +0000

Hi Drew, I hope you are still here. I have a question regarding a Dell desktop pc. I went to college for software/hardware on computers. So this has been getting to me pretty darn bad, LOL. I have a full xp cd, (my sister’s Dell pc only had SP1 on it at the time,) and she bought a new printer. It required at least xp sp2. I upgraded it and the hard drive went on me. I went ahead and repartitioned the hard drive, she had been having many system and software glitches anyways. I installed my xp cd into it. It worked great up to installing windows. (the 3 or 4th step before finalizing the windows xp install. I received two error msg’s then it shuts itself down. (in the middle of trying to install at the exact same spot). 1st msg is “Out of Range”. I rechecked and put back her video card, numerous times. Now it is this 2nd and more frustrating msg I receive, which is “Insufficient resources to complete API”. I have taken everything apart re put it all back in, Memory, Hard drive, even took the battery out off the mother board, and reset the BIOS. I was wondering if you had any suggestions? Please and thank-you for any input in this matter. Regards, Patrice

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:15:27 +0000

Gem,

I’ve never had that issue, nor have I seen it. Have you actually “tested” your RAM? Why is there a blue checkdisk screen after a base install? Sounds like there’s some hardware issues. I’d look into that first.

Regards,
Drew

By: Gem

Gem — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:55:53 +0000

Hi Drew!

Well, reason why im here is because im looking around trying to figure out how to resolve my prob. Im getting that kind of error but not when im in windows itself.

I just reformatted my pc and right after the page where there runs a blue check disk screen on one of my harddisk(not the main one), it will prompt me that its gonna prepare setting up the new windows copy, but before i can even see its setting itself up, theres gonna be a mini popup window saying that “Insufficient system resources exist to complete the API”…

my rams are all fine… (even tried removing one and the other just to check) my powersupply box is new. have u encountered this prob before?

By: Mark Spanner

Mark Spanner — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:17:17 +0000

The NT kernel files that are supplied with this patch are now rather old: dated from year 2005. It is likely that more recent Microsoft updates and hotfixes are upgrading the kernel to a more recent version that (unfortunately ) appears to lack this hibernate fix. I also have the hibernate problem, and my choices appear to be to either replace my current kernel with this “fixed version” that almost 3 years old, or stay with the current newer version of the kernel and suffer with the hibernate problem.

I agree – I have 2 laptops with the same issue installed from a SP2 disk.
It appears that the kernel files were updated in Feb’07 & they have the bug back in them.
I too do not want to go back to ‘05 files – I imagine this is just an elaborate way of getting you to use Vista ;-)

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:50:36 +0000

The NT kernel files that are supplied with this patch are now rather old: dated from year 2005. It is likely that more recent Microsoft updates and hotfixes are upgrading the kernel to a more recent version that (unfortunately ) appears to lack this hibernate fix. I also have the hibernate problem, and my choices appear to be to either replace my current kernel with this “fixed version” that almost 3 years old, or stay with the current newer version of the kernel and suffer with the hibernate problem.

By: Drew

Drew — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:00:30 +0000

Anyone else tried this?

My issue never came back. I’ve never tried it.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:07:44 +0000

I applied the fix about 6 months ago. It fixed the problem. Then it came back for a while, then it went again and has (mostly) stayed away.
It has also been suggested by our local guru that I should apply a fixed paging file next time I rebuild to see if that helps. I haven’t got there yet, but I can see the logic that avoiding Windows management of the page file might help lower fragmentation rates and leave more single large chunks of space free.
Anyone else tried this?

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:36:38 +0000

I have a Dell Latitude D620 here, and after upgrading to 2GB, I had exactly the same hassle. The laptop would wake up in my bag after getting off a train or bus, and get really hot. Thanks for the info.

Awesome! Glad I could help.

Regards,
Drew

By: Lantrix

Lantrix — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:29:23 +0000

I have a Dell Latitude D620 here, and after upgrading to 2GB, I had exactly the same hassle. The laptop would wake up in my bag after getting off a train or bus, and get really hot. Thanks for the info.

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:26:15 +0000

I too installed the fix. It worked for 2 days and then the problem came back.

It now refuses to hibernate ever, and additionally keeps changing my power options to “do nothing” every time i try to hibernate.

The fix may work for some, but not for all.

That’s weird. Try searching Google for more information, as I don’t know why it would be doing this. Have you tried reinstalling the Operating System?

You probably need to reinstall the OS from scratch and install SP2 or slipstream SP2 into your current Windows XP SP1 disk and install that (so that it installs SP2 when installing the OS).

Let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,
Drew